No Chance Quotes

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

[Sundance is] giving people a chance - many first-time filmmakers. It carries that weight - if you bring something here, people connect with it and it can launch a career.

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Everybody needs a chance to find love.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.